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Changing the Teaching Culture in Introductory STEM Courses at a Large Research University

The authors describe a major transformation in teaching large introductory courses in the sciences and engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, impacting over 17,000 students yearly. The transformation was emergent, not prescrib...

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Point of View: Can We Teach Science in a More Culturally Responsive Way Without Sacrificing Time or Content?

This column shares reflections or thoughtful opinions on issues of broad interest to the community. In this issue the authors describe how they discovered that by incorporating culturally relevant analogies and examples into our classrooms, it was p...

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Case Study: Hands-On Mini-Case Studies Promote Integration of Microbiological Concepts

This column provides original articles on innovations in case study teaching, assessment of the method, as well as case studies with teaching notes. In this article, the authors present a series of 10 mini-case studies that have been incorporated int...

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Research and Teaching: Impact of a Departmental Instructional Skills Course on Graduate Students’ Beliefs About Science Teaching and Learning

Graduate teaching assistants play an important role in undergraduate programs in the authors' Earth Science Department. A course on teaching and learning was developed to train graduate students in student-centered pedagogy, in a discipline-specific ...

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Research and Teaching: The Five Minute Teach: Instructional Design to Support TA Training and Writing Instruction in the Sciences

The Five Minute Teach (5MT) serves as both a training tool for graduate teaching assistants (TAs) and a format for explicit discipline-based writing instruction. Here the authors describe the development and execution of the 5MT as part of a profess...

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Research and Teaching: Enriching Undergraduate Experiences With Outreach in School STEM Clubs

The STEM Club Leadership for Undergraduate STEM Education, Recruiting and Success project at a large public research university in the Mountain West presents an outreach model to engage undergraduate STEM majors in developing and facilitating activi...

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Research and Teaching: Observable Features of Active Science Education Practices

Although research findings support elevated learning outcomes for students who engage in active science learning, faculty members are still resistant to using these practices. In this article the authors describe the observable features found in 17 ...